Widower's Tango

I first encountered the so-called Lyrical Essays of Albert Camus at the end of my second year of college (1978), when I was twenty. Camus q...

Thanksgiving has a long tradition in America. While most Americans associate Thanksgiving with the Puritan Pilgrims of 1621,(1) the holid...

Recently, I went back several months to read a few of my posts and discovered so many mis-spells and typos in some of them that I felt obli...

What with Obama winning a second term as our president, a death in the family, and being overtaken by a general malaise, I'm in one of t...

In 1977, in a bizarre twist to one of the most incredible rags-to-riches stories in history, the dead body of Charlie Chaplin was dug out ...

The dramatic sinking last week of what the media were calling a "tall ship" (it wasn't quite), the Bounty , in eighteen-foot...

My favorite time of the year starts today. It doesn't even bother me too much any more that I'm several thousand miles away from w...